PLATE XXXVL 



P I C U S MINOR. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker* 



PlCiE, 

 v 



Bill compreiTedj convex. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill angular, flrait. Noftrils covered with recumbent briflles. 

 Tongue very long and round, with a fharp, hard, barbed point. Twa 

 fore and two hind claws, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Crown crimfon. Above black barred with white. Beneath pale 

 brown. In the female the crown is white. 

 Picus Minor. Albo nigroque varius vertice rubro, ano albido. 

 Linn. Syjl. Nat. 

 Picus albo nigroque varius, rectricibus tribus latera- 

 libus feminigris. Fn. Suec. 83. Hajfelqu. iter 

 242. 

 Picus varius Minor. Alb. av. I. p. 20. t. 20. 

 Picus varius tertius. Raj. av. 43. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Will. Orn. 138.pl. 31. 



Alb. av. 



Lath. Gen, Syn. 2. 566. 14. 

 ' >': Suppl. 107. 



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